Reasons Why Health Care Reform Must Come to Rural Areas

Rural areas in Virginia are particularly hard hit by shrinking or non-existent availability to affordable health care, or sometimes, any health care at all. Since I live in a rural area myself, I started looking around at what was happening with regional and local health care.
There are some studies that have looked at access and [...]

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It’s A Learned Condition

Via Newsweek, The Political Carnival has “Town Hall Face” as their lead story tonight. Here’s a sample:

You really need to see the whole story. It is hilarious.

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Arthur Whitfield Bill Idea Moving in Positive Direction

Putting aside for the moment why Arthur Whitfield finds himself in this spot, a person’s conscience dictates that wrongs are righted, and as much as possible, a fractured man is made whole, hopefully.  No doubt this entire situation deserves to be looked at as a travesty of bureaucracy and bungling red tape. Right now, however, [...]

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Tiger Lilly

This one is a direct descendant of one of my Mom’s favorite flowers.

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Hibiscus

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What Were You Doing When Man First Walked on the Moon?

I know exactly what I was doing 40 years ago this evening. It was a classic hot day in Denver, where I grew up. With no air conditioning in our house, the only better option was to go outside.
I spent my time between the yard and the living room, watching Walter Cronkite and others describing [...]

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

Sometimes I think gardening is the only thing that keeps me going. It is great therapy to go out and work in the outdoors, breathing deeply. We get a lot of joy from our garden, and since it is a family project, it helps with family togetherness. We might even learn a few things along [...]

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